At uni a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible that began, “Not since Naked Lunch has such a dull book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography.”
I might be interested in reading the rest of that review if it’s available to read online. That’s a great opener lol
In a similar vein, famed cartoonist R Crumb did a faithful adaptation of the book of Genesis, including all the sex and violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Genesis_(comics)
Lol
The book has been controversial, particularly for the explicit illustrations of sexual intercourse described in the text itself. In critical circles, it has drawn fire over whether and how literal the illustration job is, or should be.
It’s fine as a holy book that we should all treat as the literal word of god, but don’t you dare draw those raunchy sex scenes from my holy book
ironically there’s an entire book about genocide of the human race by god too
Took me a second because I was focused on Genesis and Exodus, but it’s got to be Revelations, right?
Good news is that’s just a fan fiction.
Makes me think of my favorite verse to quote in arguments: Pslam 137:9 - Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks (NIV).
Context is important. It’s a song of imagined - and not executed - revenge. The writer is wishing that what happened to their kids also happened to the invaders kids. The Babylonians dashed Jewish kids against rocks, and the Jews didn’t respond in kind - couldn’t in fact, because the Law forbade it.
Cool that there is more murder than misogyny
Well, one of the dudes pretending to be Paul. Initial probably-actually-Paul is like “Why wouldn’t we have women in church leadership? They were leaders when we were being hunted by the Romans.”
Honestly though, I feel like there’s just not enough green tabs as a whole. Plenty of OG misogyny in the religious law sections.
The caption is BS and the markers don’t actually correlate with the topics, even though the topics are all present in there.
And actually there’s a pretty interesting history of empowered women buried underneath the later misogynistic revisions, which is the case for both the OT and NT in separate developments.
